What is ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board?
´ºÓêÖ±²¥app established the President’s Council in 2006 to develop its international strategy and take bold action to become one of the world’s leading universities. It was reorganized to become ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board in 2017 by strengthening its function to operate more organizationally. The board aims to give advice on important issues and make proposals for future development of the university.<Roles of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board>
? Reviewing and advising on strategies of the university
? Advising on specific actions and proposing new directions
? Advising on education, research, and funding
? Assisting in creating and developing global networks
*The "University of Tokyo Global Advisory Board" ended in March 2021 and newly launched as the "´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Navigation Board ". For ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Navigation Board, Please refer to here.
Topics & News
(November 12-13, 2020) The Fourth ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was held
(October 2, 2019) The Third ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was held
(November 28, 2018) The Second ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was held
(December 22, 2017)
(November 27, 2017)
Topic: The Fourth ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was held
The Fourth ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was held online on November 12th (Thursday) and 13th (Friday) (Japan Standard Time). Due to time differences, the board members were divided into two groups, while the organization, management, as well as the contents for both days were the same. A total of 28 board members from Japan and overseas (18 on the first day, 10 on the second), President Gonokami, Executive Vice President Shirahase and other members of the university’s senior leadership attended the meeting. The theme for this meeting was "New Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 World and ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Beyond 2020".
To begin, President Gonokami gave a presentation entitled "´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Beyond 2020". In this presentation, he introduced both the Tokyo College and the Center for Global Commons, whose establishment benefitted from discussions in past board meetings, and the University Bonds that were issued this October. Following the presentation, the meeting organizers showed a video of interviews with 10 ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app students to the audience. There was an active exchange of opinions on the initiatives taken by ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app to become a platform for social change from a global perspective during the discussion session. Participants discussed about ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app’s unique role in contributing more effectively to the global community.
With President Gonokami stepping down from his post as president next March, the participating board members sent messages to him one by one. Prof. Fujii then made a short speech as the President-elect. The meeting ended with a message of thanks from President Gonokami to the attendees. The Fourth ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting was successfully completed.
This was the last of the Global Advisory Board meeting, but over the years the university has received lots of feedback and advices from the board members ever since the meetings were reestablished as the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Advisory Board from the President’s Council. Discussions of previous meetings have come into fruition in the form of the establishment of Tokyo College and the Center for Global Commons, as already mentioned above. We will continue to make full use of the advices we have received from the board members for the development of our university.
Past Meetings
Meetings of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board are in principle held once a year, bringing together some of the board members to advise and make proposals on a particular theme.
| Year | City | Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Tokyo | The First President’s Council Meeting |
| 2007 | London | The Second President’s Council Meeting |
| 2007 | Tokyo | The Third President’s Council Meeting |
| 2008 | New Delhi | The Fourth President’s Council Meeting |
| 2008 | Tokyo | The Fifth President’s Council Meeting |
| 2009 | Tokyo | The Sixth President’s Council Meeting |
| 2010 | New York | The Seventh President’s Council Meeting |
| 2010 | Tokyo | The Eighth President’s Council Meeting |
| 2011 | Geneva | The Ninth President’s Council Meeting |
| 2013 | Bangkok | |
| 2014 | Tokyo | |
| 2016 | Tokyo | |
| 2017 | Tokyo | |
| 2018 | Tokyo | The Second ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting |
| 2019 | Tokyo | The Third ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting |
| 2020 | Tokyo | The Fourth ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board Meeting |
Board Members (until March 2021)
´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Global Advisory Board consists of 37 experts listed below. We are honored to have such distinguished members from academic, industrial, and political communities all around the world.
*Data last updated in December, 2020.
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Prof. Dr. HRH of Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol Princess, Kingdom of Thailand; President, Chulabhorn Research Institute |
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Dr. Jacques Attali Chairman, A&A |
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Dr. Marta Szigeti Bonifert Vice-President Institute of Directors (IoD) Hungary |
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Prof. Christina Cameron Professor Emerita, Université de Montréal |
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Dr. Morris Chang Chairman & Founder, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. |
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Prof. Un-Chan Chung Comissioner, Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) |
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Dr. Bertrand Collomb (He passed away in May, 2019) Honorary Chairman, Lafarge |
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Prof. Rita R. Colwell Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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Prof. Luciano Coutinho Guest Full Professor of Economics, University of Campinas – UNICAMP |
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Mr. Bill Emmott International author and advisor |
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Dr. Victor Kwok-King Fung Group Chairman, Fung Group |
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Prof. Sadaoki Furui Chair of the Board of Trustees, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
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Prof. Vartan Gregorian President, Carnegie Corporation of New York |
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Prof. Frederick G. Hilmer Emeritus President, the University of New South Wales |
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Dr. Naoko Ishii CEO & Chairperson, The Global Environment Facility |
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Mr. Hassan Jameel Deputy President & Vice Chairman, Abdul Latif Jameel Saudi Arabia Profile: /en/about/hassan-jameel.html |
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Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama Chairman of the Institute, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. |
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Prof. Kiyoshi Kurokawa Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and the University of Tokyo Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute Distinguished Research Affiliate of the MIT Media Lab |
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Prof. Anthony James Leggett Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee President, the University of Giessen; Vice-President, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
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Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal Chairman, Hero Enterprises |
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Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy Founder, Infosys Limited |
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Mr. Stefan Noreen Former Ambassador of Sweden to Japan |
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Mr. Pär Nuder Chairman of the Foundation for the Swedish-Estonian Cooperation Fund; Chairman of the Board, Hemsö AB |
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Prof. Carmencita D. Padilla Chancellor, University of the Philippines Manila |
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Prof. Kari Olavi Raivio Chancellor Emeritus, The University of Helsinki |
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Prof. John Mark Ramseyer Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School |
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Mr. Charles P. Rockefeller Head of Partnerships, Composite Apps, Inc. |
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Prof. Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School |
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Mr. Andreas Schleicher Director, the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD |
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Prof. Klaus Schwab Founder and Chairman, World Economic Forum |
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Prof. Wang Wan Council Member, Board of Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University |
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Prof. Xu Zhihong Boya Chair Professor of Peking University, Academician of CAS |
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Prof. Yoshinori Yokoyama Social Systems Architect |
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Mr. Peter Suk-Mynn Yoon Chairman, SBS Media Group and Taeyoung Group |
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Prof. Michael Y. Yoshino Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School |
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Mr. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala CEO, Ayala Corporation |
